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Tag Name "Explanations" (162)

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When multiple explanations exist, the simplest is usually correct.
Dan Brown
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The reason so many people misunderstand so many issues is not that these issues are so complex, but that people do not want a factual or analytical explanation that leaves them emotionally unsatisfied. They want villains to hate and heroes to cheer - and they don't want explanations that do not give them that.
Thomas Sowell
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Where two factions see vividly each its own aspect, and contrive their own explanations of what they see, it is almost impossible for them to credit each other with honesty.
Walter Lippmann
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Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior.
Dennis Prager
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Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations.
Ralph P. Boas, Jr.
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[A certain class of explanations in science are] analgesics that dull the ache of incomprehension without removing the cause.
Peter Medawar
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You should avoid making yourself too clear even in your explanations.
Baltasar Gracian
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In one thing you have not changed, dear friend, said Aragorn: you still speak in riddles. What? In riddles? said Gandalf. No! For I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to the long explanations needed by the young are wearying.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed and divorces.
Gunnar Myrdal
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Even if surrounded with explanations, Auschwitz can never be grasped.
Gunter Grass
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With Jesus, however, the device of parabolic utterance is used not to explain things to people’s satisfaction but to call attention to the unsatisfactoriness of all their previous explanations and understandings.
Robert Farrar Capon
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I’m not interested in the words or the meaning of the words. I’m interested in disappearing in it completely, to not be aware of yourself at all. That’s the way music works for me. It’s purely emotional. It goes straight to the heart. There are no explanations. That’s just it.
Karl Ove Knausgard
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Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations.
Paul Lockhart
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I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.
Paulo Coelho
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I've always wondered where explanations end and excuses begin.
Errol Morris
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Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations.
Stephen Hawking
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Emotions are wild horses. It is not explanations that carry us forward, but our will to go on.
Paulo Coelho
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Explanations don't comfort. You won't feel better if you know why. It won't hurt any less.
Rick Warren
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Charles II once invited the members of the Royal Society to explain to him why a dead fish weighs more than the same fish alive a number of subtle explanations were offered to him. He then pointed out that it does not.
Alasdair MacIntyre
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Americans get very simple explanations of what happens to them.
Mick Jagger
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Here I beg you to observe in passing that the scruples that prevented ancient writers from using arithmetical terms in geometry, and which can only be a consequence of their inability to perceive clearly the relation between these two subjects, introduced much obscurity and confusion into their explanations.
Rene Descartes
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I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries.
Peter Weir
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Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages, for they are not as far removed from the understanding of spiritual matter as a twentieth-century Englishman. His explanations of primitive practices are much cruder than the meaning of these practices themselves.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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